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Facing arrest warrant, Russia’s Putin visits annexed Crimea

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war ...

Military: rocket fired from Gaza lands on southern Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward southern Israel Saturday evening. The rocket fell and exploded in an open area, triggering warning sirens in the Nahal Oz community to the east of Gaza City. There were no reports of ...

Ecuador earthquake kills at least 4, causes wide damage

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least four people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines. The U.S. ...

Heathrow security guards to strike for 10 days over Easter

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Security guards at London's Heathrow Airport will walk off their jobs for 10 days over the Easter break, the latest in a wave of strike action to affect the U.K. The union Unite said Friday more than 1,400 security guards employed by Heathrow ...

Millions of dead fish wash up amid heat wave in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in what authorities and scientists say is caused by floods and hot weather. The Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales state said the fish deaths coincided with a heat wave that put stress ...

UK minister in Rwanda to reinforce migrant deportation plan

LONDON (AP) — Britain's interior minister arrived in Rwanda on Saturday for a visit aimed at reinforcing the U.K. government's commitment to a controversial plan to deport some asylum-seekers to the African country. Ahead of her visit, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the migration ...

2nd Vatican official says pope OK’d ransom payments for nun

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A second high-ranking Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis had authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants ...

Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen artifacts

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further ...

China’s Xi to meet Putin as Beijing seeks bolder global role

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Moscow next week, offering a major diplomatic boost to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the same day the International Criminal Court announced it wants to put the Russian leader on trial ...

UK officer guilty of misconduct for clubbing ex-soccer star

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British police officer was allowed to keep her job Friday after a disciplinary panel found her guilty of gross misconduct for unlawfully clubbing former professional soccer player Dalian Atkinson, who died after another officer used a stun ...

Russia to award pilots involved in US drone incident

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian fighter pilots involved in an incident with a U.S. drone that resulted in its crash will be given state awards, the Defense Ministry announced Friday. The move appears to signal Moscow's intention to adopt a more aggressive stance toward future U.S. surveillance ...

International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court said Friday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from ...

Palestinians: 1 killed by Israeli army fire in West Bank

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said troops shot a Palestinian who approached soldiers on Friday and pulled a knife near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian authorities said the man died of his wounds a short while later. The Palestinian Health Ministry ...

20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Along the Tigris River, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous abandon on a recent evening to a local rapper as the sun set behind them. It's a world away from the terror that followed the U.S. invasion 20 ...

Governments pledge money, attention to Venezuela’s crisis

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Governments and financial institutions pledged millions of dollars Friday for humanitarian and development projects to address the urgent needs of Venezuelans at home and abroad affected by a crisis that diplomats ...

Near ‘cliff’s edge,’ Credit Suisse not seen as systemic risk

By JAMEY KEATEN and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Longtime troubles at Credit Suisse came to a head this week with a record stock plunge that spread fears of a banking crisis jumping from the U.S. to Europe. But the problems have been building for years at Switzerland's ...

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By DAKE KANG and MARIA CHENG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab, ...

Violent protests in France over Macron’s retirement age push

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on Friday, trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French President Emmanuel Macron's government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase ...

Pentagon video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on US drone

By KARL RITTER, AAMER MADHANI and DINO HAZELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Biden administration released video Thursday of a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone as the U.S. sought to hold Russia responsible for the collision that led to the ...

Italy retrial ordered for Americans in killing of officer

Italy retrial ordered for Americans in killing of officer ROME (AP) — Italy's highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens convicted in the slaying of an Italian police officer during a sting operation gone wrong. The Court of Cassation late Wednesday threw out the guilty ...